Doctors and medical students are calling for urgent funding and Medicare changes to prevent a shortage of 11,000 general practitioners over the next decade. Australian Medical Association vice-president Danielle McMullen says it will be harder to access GPs, hospitals and specialists if the skills shortage is not addressed. “Our hospital system will continue to be under even more pressure and that logjam and ambulance ramping will just get worse,” McMullen said. The association says more needs to be done to address the fact only one in seven final-year medical students consider becoming a GP. Curriculum, placement opportunities and training pathways were all covered at a meeting with the student association, health minister and his opposition counterpart.

Source: Stuff October 11, 2022 21:23 UTC